[gilga]

so cool! (though if any I'd think noticing the spell would make it even more scary)...

[Volker]

It did that's why he totally freaked out ^^

[luckace]

I offer each of you to spend one point of edge which does not refresh until the end of this quest. I can't tell you what you get for it, but I feel I have to offer it to you.

How do you guys see this?
I personally feel like I am willing to accept this offer. Although we will probably be able to get the information otherwisely, I strongly feel like Harka not tipping us off to the temple will be worth a point of edge. I had actually hoped that from Harka's reaction on Scarcrow's hint for discretion we (or probably Mark, since he'll have a better judge-intentions-roll) could make an assumption on whether he'll tell the temple about us.


@GM: Do you mean by "does not refresh" that it will be burnt, therefore also erased from our starting-amount? And do all three of us have to give one, or only Mark and Scarcrow?
May I ask you to roleplay Harka's reaction so we get a shot at a judge-intentions-roll?

[gilga]

What can he tip them off about us? All he knows is that we are creepy people that ask about datajacks. How are we related to the temple?

I have no problem spending edge but it seems odd to spend it not knowing what it is about. If Volker feels so commited to give us a chance to do it Mark will do with 2 edge as well.

[Volker]

Before we handle the edge thing, the easier thing is, of course, luckace's request. But I'd prefer it the other way round: Mark and Scarcrow can each roll a Judge Intentions roll. Depending on the quality of the rolls, I will describe the reaction in more or less detail. Does that sound fair?

[luckace]

Sounds fair to me.
Judge Intentions: 6d6t5 2

Well, Mark asked rather specifically

I have heard about these data jacks that can turn a little boy into an assassin.

, so he can probably suspect that we are investigating on the Bikki-incident and might want to warn his employers. Take a warning that creepy people are asking creepy questions and the sudden disappereance of Frozen Yoghurt and the temple might at least be alert, which might cause difficulties when we want to kidnap the German or the flirty American, or an even bigger fish.
True, this is a worst-case-scenario, but it might happen.

[Volker]

Okay, basically this was what I offered you You seemed to be totally oblivious to the fact he might tip you off. Since you thought of it yourself, you may keep your edge. You're gonna need it 
I wait for Mark's roll. 2 doesn't give away a lot.

[gilga]

Judge intentions: 7d6t5 1
I am pretty sure that Scarcrow (with +4 charisma) has better judge intentions than Mark. It is intuition + charisma after all.
 

[luckace]

All right, glad to know what the stakes are 

@gilga: oh, right, forgot about the improved charisma, thanks.
Four more dices: improved charisma: 4d6t5 0
Well, crap.
 So... to be honest, I can't come up with a smarter way to silence the doc than murdering him or kidnapping his loved ones.
Intimidating him already failed , so did con, right? And we probably can't get Laes fast enough before he spills the beans.

 I'm pretty much out of ideas and ready to take Volker's offer, now that we know for sure what we get for it.

[gilga]

let him talk

[Volker]

Well, I don't offer a solution. My offer was just to remind that this guy is a customer of those people who you really, really don't want to get aware of your investigation. Since you thought of it yourself, you also keep the Edge. You still should do something about it. What? That's none of my business

Sorry for my absence. Had a horrible week

[gilga]

I do not think we have told that much that he'll 'call the temple and tell them' what he will tell them? that some people asked about special data jacks? Little Bikki is walking the streets and brag about the special powers he received to anyone that might listen. Mark will not like to murder that guy, but he can try and hack the records of his clinc and steal information about his dealing with the temple.

[luckace]

I think you're hitting exactly the point: Bikki. From what's been said, we must know about Bikki (assuming that Bikki is the only child-assassin who's been let loose)
It is only a matter of time until they find out that FY has been killed at the hive. Now, either they take it that Riker and friends killed FY, which is quite unlikely, though, considering how long he's been terrorizing them (and how we failed to take him out two times in Street Scum), or, more likely, they'll probably suspect that the ratpack had help (which they definitely will assume as soon as  they find out about the rather spectacular bathhouse-brawl we had when capturing FY, so again: only a matter of time)
So far not a big problem though: FY had so many enemies that it was only a matter of time (man, I hate repeating myself) until someone paid someone to dispose of him. He's not directly linked to the experiments, so they'll probably just shrug it off and pray for his wretched soul.
Buuut if they now find out that some professionals are investigating the skilljack-incident, it'll be easy to figure out that these guys are in fact the same professionals that took care of their mad dog, which basically is an open declaration of war.
So I think if we let him talk, we have to execute our next strikes very quickly, before they put one and one together and know that we are on their tracks.

Or do you guys see it differently?

Reedit:
Scarcrow has his sword and shockgloves , he could try to kill the work and/or stun Harka, but that would probably trigger quite a fuss.
I don't know much about decking, is it possible for Mark to hack Harka's comlink or whatever he uses and intercept all messages that are supposed to warn the temple or to redirect them to himself,  so he could fake a response?

[Volker]

I think you're hitting exactly the point: Bikki. From what's been said, we must know about Bikki (assuming that Bikki is the only child-assassin who's been let loose)
It is only a matter of time until they find out that FY has been killed at the hive. Now, either they take it that Riker and friends killed FY, which is quite unlikely, though, considering how long he's been terrorizing them (and how we failed to take him out two times in Street Scum), or, more likely, they'll probably suspect that the ratpack had help (which they definitely will assume as soon as  they find out about the rather spectacular bathhouse-brawl we had when capturing FY, so again: only a matter of time)
So far not a big problem though: FY had so many enemies that it was only a matter of time (man, I hate repeating myself) until someone paid someone to dispose of him. He's not directly linked to the experiments, so they'll probably just shrug it off and pray for his wretched soul.
Buuut if they now find out that some professionals are investigating the skilljack-incident, it'll be easy to figure out that these guys are in fact the same professionals that took care of their mad dog, which basically is an open declaration of war.
So I think if we let him talk, we have to execute our next strikes very quickly, before they put one and one together and know that we are on their tracks.

Or do you guys see it differently?

Nope, you summarized it perfectly.

Scarcrow has his sword and shockgloves , he could try to kill the work and/or stun Harka, but that would probably trigger quite a fuss.
I don't know much about decking, is it possible for Mark to hack Harka's comlink or whatever he uses and intercept all messages that are supposed to warn the temple or to redirect them to himself,  so he could fake a response?

There is this possibility - but only for a short time. After some half hour or so, the Grid Overwatch Division will unleash its wrath upon whoever dares to hack for such a long time.

[gilga]

Well I am not so worried about these things - they got to find out sooner or later and it does not feel as the indirectness get us any closer - we could just use brute force because it seems that playing detectives just get us into more troubles. It only take a moment to send a message and if we burn his shop or something it also creates tension- perhaps we are just not socially skilled enough to pull off sneaky.

Let's just bust on the temple fight our way to the lab, copy and erase the data and take the head researcher by force. Perhaps we have to be realistic, I am not sure what good did FY did to us either other than just making us excessively loud as we were indirect.